Gradings
Total Shotokan Karate Dan Grading
On Thursday 26th September at the Berkhamsted dojo, Total Shotokan Karate held it’s latest Dan Grading
On Thursday 26th September at the Berkhamsted dojo, Total Shotokan Karate held it’s latest Dan Grading
On 22nd March 2024 we conducted our latest Dan grading and we are delighted to announce the promotion of Bobby to Shodan, Seth to Nidan and Josh and Maria to Sandan. Each has been training with KCSKC for a long time and has been preparing for this grading for a Read more…
On 30th January 2023, Dan Sensei and I were delighted to award John Coleby his Shodan Blackbelt. John has been training with KSSKC for the past 5 years after a 40 year break having trained with the KUGB in the late 70’s. John’s enthusiasm, dedication and commitment to training and Read more…
On Monday 2nd March 2020 we had the kids class grading for Kings Cross Shotokan Karate Club, which saw a number of our younger and newer students progress through the Foundation grades whilst others moved further forward in the Kyu ranks. In total 16 students passed. On Thursday we saw Read more…
Monday 4th March was the first kids Club grading of the year and saw 13 students pass their grades in style. It was great to see students progressing well through our Foundation Grade system and also those who have moved through the Foundation Phases and are now taking full Kyu Read more…
Huge congratulations to KCSKC’s Harvey, Maria and Josh who all passed Nidan (2nd Dan Blackbelt) in style in December 2017 at the SSKI Honbu Dojo. The process of working towards this grading started over 12 months ago for each of them and each worked hard to put themselves into the Read more…
Monday 15th September saw the London Club’s September Kyu grading. The following students were succesfull; Ken Hettiarachi to 9th Kyu Sebastian Ahlers to 8th Kyu Katja Ajoha to 6th Kyu Luke Oxlade to 5th Kyu Well done all!
Congratulations to the following who passed their gradings in the June Kyu grading: Sebastian – 9th Kyu Katja – 7th Kyu Younnes – 6th Kyu Nigel – 5th Kyu Ed – 5th Kyu Harvey – 1st Kyu
Well done to the following students who passed their grading in March Harvey – 2nd Kyu Ed – 6th Kyu Luke – 6th Kyu Terry – 7th Kyu Younis – 7th Kyu Katja – 8th Kyu We also said goodbye to Terry that evening who was heading back to the Read more…
The London Dojo had a very successful end to 2013, with two batches of students passing their respective gradings without a single student failing. Firstly, on Saturday 7th December 2013, four London students passed their respective Dan gradings in front of a panel headed by Malcolm Phipps Sensei (8th Dan). Read more…